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AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 401 
Seaside Grounds and Plants—continued. 
macrantha, Phillyreas, Berberries, Cotoneasters, thick- 
leaved Rhododendrons, Evergreen Oak (Quercus Ilex), 
Elders, the Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), Gorse 
(Ulex Europæus), Ivies, thick-leaved Hollies, Willows, 
common Junipers, Rosa spinosissima, R. rubiginosa (Sweet- 
briar), R. rugosa, &c. Amongst Pines, the hardiest are 
P. austriaca, P. Laricio, and P. Pinaster. 
SEASIDE POPPY. A common name for Glaucium 
flavum. 
Seats—continued. 
height, and covered with rough bark or thatch, the ends 
being closed with boards, also covered with bark, or 
rough trellis work, and a floor constructed with pebbles 
or blocks of wood. The wall at the back should be 
lined with India matting, and a Rose or Honeysuckle 
trained over the structure, the width of which may 
be from 3ft. to 5ft. Similar Seats, but constructed 
independently of a wall, with bark or thatch coverings, 
may be erected in the more distant parts of the grounds, 
woods, &c., as shelters in case of sudden showers. In such 
SEA STARWORT. A common name for Aster 
Tripolium. 
SEA THRIFT. See Statice Limonium. 
SEATS. As resting-places in the pleasure-grounds, 
park, and woods of a gentleman’s domain, Seats are 
always necessary adjuncts ; for the croquet-ground, cricket- 
ground, &c., they are indispensable. In the gardens of 
the suburban villa, and of the cottage, they are alike in 
request. Seats may be of classic design, the work of 
the sculptor and architect, upon the nobleman’s ter- 
race ; logs of wood, placed informally at the base of some 
large tree, in the park; a simple rustic plank, with 
a more or less grotesque back rail formed of crooked 
branches, for the shrubbery and the woods. But, as a rule 
the above are not admissible into dressed grounds. The 
inventive faculties of manufacturers of garden furniture 
have of late years placed within the reach of all classes 
a variety of Seats much more enjoyable and convenient 
than the uncomfortable rustic Seats of former times. 
Most of the large furnishing ironmongers, in the principal 
towns, supply Seats suitable for the margins of walks, 
croquet-grounds, and other places (where a considerable 
number of persons require accommodation), that will 
each afford rest to from six to eight persons: some of 
these have a back to shut down over the Seat to 
keep it dry—the “ Windsor,’ the “Osborne,” and the 
“Sandringham,” are good examples — others are fitted 
with awnings, and very ingenious mechanism for open- 
ing and closing the same at pleasure. In some, the 
“awning” forms. a screen at the back: by this con- 
trivance persons using the Seat are secured from the 
chill east winds that prevail in spring and early summer, 
and which often render the employment of an open Seat 
dangerous to health. The awnings also form an agree- 
able screen from the scorching sun at a later period. 
These Seats, whilst the most desirable, are not out of 
keeping in any position in the pleasure-grounds. The 
framework of the Seats above described is of iron, having 
laths of pitch pine or other durable wood bolted on to form 
the seat and back; the whole is painted or stained and 
varnished, 
Of chairs, there is an almost endless variety ; most of 
them are very light, and easy to transfer from place to 
place as occasion may require. They are framed of iron, 
with wood laths, as described above, or with light steel 
spring laths, which are more yielding than the wood. |; 
Some are made with elbow rests, some to fold up, 
others to rock. The names given to these, in the- 
are “ Desideratum,” “ Gwyder,” “ Spring lounges A 
spring chairs,” &c. It is desirable that this ceolate, spreading 
furniture should be carefully stored in ; flower-stems erect, 
house, during the winter months, 7 
depends upon the perfect sta 
and in the spring, when 
be attended to. 
The Seats fitted, 
we 
en).* J. and tips of the shoots bright golden- 
A charming variety, admirably suited for spring 
iving colour at a dull time of the year. Less 
w 
may often find a į 
comfortable retreat 
enery; = Shy 
a bench, sayfr¢ 
zaj it. 
` ends, covered with rough bark or heather, and the struc- 
places, they should have a closely-boarded back and 
ture should be flanked by shrubs. Cold draughts should’ 
be prevented from entering at the back of the Seat, by 
stuffing all crevices with moss, and, if a greater degree 
of ornamentation is desired, patterns in hazel rods or _ 
mosses may be worked on the inside surfaces. To 
SEAWEEDS. “A general term for the plants com- —__ 
prehended in the order Alge of the Linnwan class 
Cryptogamia, known as flowerless plants. It includes 
not only plants growing in the sea, as the name Seaweed 
implies, but also in fresh water, and on moist 
rocks, stone, and living and diseased vegetable 
stances, in the form-of slime and jellies ” (Smith). 
Seaweeds are very largely used as manure in many — 
districts around the British coasts, and in the Channel 
Islands, and are much esteemed for this purpose, owing — 
to their richness in the foods required by plants, and 
to their rapid decay after being dug or ploughed into 
the ground. They are regarded as peculiariy useful in- 
promoting the growth of Potatoes, and also as benetfeial 
to Turnips; in fact, they especially assist the growth l 
plants that contain a good deal of water in their tissues 
and Soda compounds, but rather poor in 
hence, it is well to mi i ) 
other manure rich in Phosphates, bef 
on the soil. See also Manures. — 
of stove or greenhouse, erect 
tropical and Southern Africa~4 
New Zealand. Flowers wi 
numerous, in corymboş 
yi ee ee (short-leaved). 2. shorter and thicker than in — 
drical, at small-flowered). fl smaller than in the 
twisted xs, l on the | n shoots ascending, not spreading, 
Leayfattened on both surfaces. cs Gey a 
YS. a. teretifolium (tercte-leaved). jl., sepals And petals obtuse- 
i "oe E flattened p aea (Sy. En. B. 529.) 2 
mp | -clasping). jl. golden-yellow, numerous, _ 
ed outside ; s jin. long, keeled, twice . 
es two-forked, leafy, with a solitary 
tems decumbent, ascending, 6in. to 
ed and membranous at base, tapering — 
; those of the flower-stems alter- 
